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SIXTY-FIRST NEW YORK INFANTRY.
Organized from August 22 to October 26, 1861 ; reeruited from different parts of the State, one company being composed of students from Madison University. It took a place in the Army of the Poto- mac at Fort Worth, and remained until the spring of 1862, when it became attached to the division under General Sumner, and in MeClel- lan's advanee on the Peninsula campaign, it first met the enemy at Fair Oaks, and was engaged in all the battles of that campaign.
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After the battle of Antietam, its roster had become greatly deci- mated, and thereafter it held its title by the addition of recruits from time to time. At the surrender of Lee, barely a skeleton of the Sixty-first remained. Engagements : Peach Orchard, Va., White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Md., Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Pa., Bristoe Station, Va., Wil- derness, Corbin's Bridge, Potomac river, Spottsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, Siege of Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, Reams Station, Sailors' Creek, Farmville.
COMPANY F.
Loren L. Little.
Esperance - Student ; single ; age 21; enlisted at Whitestown Seminary, September 25, 1861 ; contracted disability early in 1862, but refused to be discharged a few days previous to the battle of Fair Oaks; participated in that engagement and was killed by gun- shot through the head.
John Brumley.
Esperance -- Laborer ; single; age 17; enlisted September 11, 1861; was wounded by gunshot in the leg at Fair Oaks ; treated in hospital at David's Island ; rejoined his regiment and served reg- ularly until killed at the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
Lewis Judson.
Esperance - Butcher ; single ; age 18; enlisted September 12, 1861 ; discharged for disability ; died of consumption, April 16, 1863.
John H. Loshland.
Esperance-Single ; enlisted September 24, 1861 ; re-enlisted Jan- nary 1, 1864; mnstered out August 1, 1865 .- Town Record. M.
William H. Maxwell.
Esperance - Laborer ; single ; enlisted September 24, 1861 ; cap- tured during the "Seven Days' battle;" exchanged in August ; trans- ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps .- Town Record. A.
Fred Ensign.
Esperance - Single; enlisted September 17, 1862 ; transferred to Fourth United States Artillery, and discharged by muster out .- Town Record. M.
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John Monroe, Sergeant.
Schoharie - Single ; enlisted September 25, 1861 ; re-enlisted Jan- uary 1, 1864 ; mustered out August -, 1865 .- Town Record. M.
Robert Hurst.
Carlisle - Farmer ; single; age 21; enlisted September 12, 1861 ; did full service until McClellan's retreat to Harrison's Landing, where he received injuries from which he died at Point Lookont Hospital, Md., September 22, 1862; buried at that place .- Roll of Honor.
Jacob H. Quick.
Esperance - Single; age.20 ; enlisted September 25, 1861 ; de- tailed as ambulance driver in spring of 1862; served in line of duty through the Peninsula campaign until captured at Savage Station ; taken to Castle Thunder, Libby, and to Belle Isle ; was exchanged at City Point in August, 1862; rejoined his regiment at. Harrison's Landing, and served regularly after; re-enlisted in the winter of 1864, and served regularly through the campaigns of Grant to the close of the war, and being the only original member of his company remaining ; Argusville, N. Y.
John Hartgraves.
Esperance - Enlisted September 24, 1861; killed at Fair Oaks. - M. R.
John A. Archer.
Esperance -- Age 21 ; enlisted September 17, 1861 ; did full ser- vice through his first term ; re-enlisted, and while waiting transpor- tation went into action on the skirmish line at Reams Station, and was captured ; died in the hands of the enemy.
John West.
Fulton --- Farmer ; single ; age 22 ; enlisted September -, 1861 ; did full service until wounded by gunshot in left knee, at Antietam ; discharged for disability, January, 1863; North Blenheim, N. Y. ; farmer; single.
Benjamin W. Miles.
Schoharie - Married ; age 29; enlisted February, 1864; dis- charged July 7, 1865 .- M. R. M.
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COMPANY E.
George F. Karker.
Sharon - Moulder ; married ; age 27; enlisted April 8, 1864; joined his regiment at Brandy Station ; served in Mine Run and Wilderness battles until May 8, when he was wounded by gunshot in right arm, necessitating amputation, five inches below the shoulder ; treated at Alexandria, Va., Christian Street Hospital, Broad and Cherry Hospital, Philadelphia, and Albany Barracks; discharged March 10, 1865 ; West Berne, N. Y .; citizen ; widower. Children, Isaac J., Orson M., Armada E., George W., Martin L.
COMPANY II.
William Pierce.
Middleburg - Farmer ; single ; age 15; enlisted March 7, 1864, under the assumed name of Borst, to avoid being found by his father ; was wounded by gunshot through front to left side of lower jaw, at Spottsylvania, and by bayonet through calf of right leg ; treated at McClellan Hospital ; from there furloughed home and discharged July 14, 1865; Middleburg, N. Y .; farmer; married. Children, Franklin, Areneda, Charles, Maria, Peter, Jacob.
George Wayman.
Fulton - Farmer ; married ; age 29; enlisted March 4, 1864 ; joined his regiment and began service in the field in May following ; participated in the battles of Cold Harbor, first assault on Peters- burg, Reais Station and the different skirmishes of his regiment until October 18, 1864, when he was wounded by gunshot through right lung at Fort McGilvery ; discharged June 5, 1865; West Fulton, N. Y .; blacksmith ; married. Children, Martin, Irena, James, Orson, Edna, Huldah.
SIXTY-THIRD NEW YORK, "IRISH BRIGADE."
Organized Angust, 1861, for two years' service ; re-enlisted and served through the war ; it was assigned to the First Division of the Second Corps ; it took part in the engagements on the Peninsula and at Antietam in 1862, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg in 1863, and from the Wilderness to Appomattox.
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COMPANY B.
Joseph Hoffman.
Schoharie - Age 16; enlisted as a substitute, October 27, 1863. -Town Record. M.
SEVENTY-FIRST NEW YORK INFANTRY.
Organized Angust, 1861, and assigned to Hooker's Division of the Third Corps.
COMPANY C.
Jacob Hyser.
Blenheim - Farmer; married ; age 25; enlisted 1861; served regularly until killed by gunshot in the forehead at the battle of Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862.
SEVENTY-SIXTH NEW YORK VOLUNTEER INFANTRY .*
The regiment was raised in the counties of Cortland and Otsego ; the Cortland contingent, numbering about eight hundred inen, arrived at Albany, December 18, 1861; the Otsego branch, consist- ing of Companies H, I and K, was transported by sleighs from its rendezvous at Cherry Valley, to Canajoharie, and from thence to Albany by rail, arriving January 8, 1862 ; Company I was wholly composed of Schoharie county men, recruited by Captain John E. Cook and Lieutenant Hiram Blodgett ; after a reorganization at Albany, the excess of enlistments above the maximum number were transferred to the Third New York Heavy Artillery, which afterward became light artillery ; on the 17th of Jannary, 1862, a beautiful stand of colors was presented to the regiment by S. R. Campbell, Esq., on behalf of his mother, Mrs. Samuel Campbell, of New York Mills, and on the day following, it moved to New York city, going into quarters on Riker's Island, January 21 ; on January 30 it started by train for Washington, arriving at midnight of the 31st ; after going into quarters on Meridan Hill, February 4, it began the life of discipline and incidents com- mon to those troops who entered the Army of the Potomac at that period; on the 24th the regiment was transferred to Forts Totten, DeRussy. Massachusetts and Slemmer, and did garri- son duty at these forts until the 22d of May, when it took steamer
* Abridged from Lieut. A. P. Smith's History of the Regiment.
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for Acquia Creek, and from that place marched to Fredericksburg, arriving on the night of the 25th ; here the Seventy-sixth was as- signed to Doubleday's Division and detailed for guard and provost duty at that city, and being the only troops occupying the city from June 10 to June 26; by special order of June 26 it was assigned to Doubleday's Brigade, King's Division, McDowell's Third Corps ; on the 2d of July, Colonel William P. Wainwright assumed com- mand of the regiment and began its drill and equipment for effective service ; on the morning of the 9th of Angust King's Division pro- ceeded to Culpeper, under orders to join the First Corps at that place ; it encamped midway between Culpeper and Cedar Mountain on the 11th, and on the 16th passed over the battle-field of Cedar Mountain and encamped at its base ; retracing its steps on the 19th, the Seventy- sixth proceeded to near the Rappahannock and encamped in a position overlooking Banks' Corps ; on the 21st day of August, 1862, the Seventy-sixth New York received its baptism of fire while passing to the support of a battery ; Angust 23 it bivouacked two miles be- yond Warrenton Junction, resumed the march to White Sulphur Springs, and on the 28th continued the march toward Washington ; after passing a mile or two beyond Gainesville, the regiment was assailed by a terrible artillery fire from the left, under which it rallied, and after reaching the farther side of a piece of woods, a short dis- tance in advance, it engaged the enemy until after dark ; in the desper- ate and fruitless battle of Gainesville all wounded, who could not be taken from the field in ambulances, fell into the hands of the enemy on the following day ; those wounded during the engagement were, at times, under the fire of both armies, and after the battle suffered untold torture from hunger, thirst and pain for four days, and at the end from a drenching rain ; six days after the battle the wounded able to walk, started for Centerville, where they were paroled ; at one o'clock of the 29th of August, the Seventy-sixth fell back toward Manassas Junction, and after a few hours' rest, continued the march to Bull Run, where it took position on a low hill in advance of the main army, and from which it was compelled to retire after dark, after a loss of fifteen killed and twenty-four missing ; on the following morning an " assembly " of the brigade revealed the fact that but one-third were present for duty, after a campaign of twenty days ; on this day, the 30th, the regiment lay in reserve under artillery fire, but was not actively engaged, and later, continued with the army in retreat to near Centerville ; the march to Fairfax was resumed on the after- noon of September 1, and after reaching camp the Seventy-sixth was
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detailed for picket, four miles to the left, where they watched and waited for the enemy, in a cold north-west storm ; the retreat was continued on the morning of the 2d as far as Upton's Hill, and thus closed the first campaign of the Seventy-sixth.
When the regiment left Fredericksburg on this campaign it num- bered four hundred and fifty officers and men. On the morning of the 2d of September it numbered two hundred and twenty-five, or one-half. After a rest of four days it started on the Antietam cam- paign ; passing through Washington, their old quarters on Meridan Hill, Frederick City, Middletown and to Sonth Mountain, where it was assigned a position in Hooker's Corps, and in the assault to the right of Turner's Gap. On reaching the summit of the mountain, it became engaged with the enemy and continued the fight until dark. During the fore part of the next day - the 17th,- the Sev- enty-sixth lay between the artillery of both armies, suffering a loss of several wounded, and in the afternoon was withdrawn to the sup- port of a battery. Darkness closed the terrible battle of Antietam. The dawn of the 18th revealed only dead and wounded foes. After a mneh-needed rest at Antietam, until the 24th of October, tlie regi- ment turned its face toward Virginia and started on the march to Bakersville, to Crampton's Gap, to Berlin, to Snicker's Gap and to Union, where the brigade joined its division. November 3, and marched to Warrenton Junction. Here Mcclellan. was relieved, and Burnside took chief command of the Army of the Potomac ; and here the Seventy-sixth encountered its first snow storm during its service in the field - a regular norther. From Warrenton the regiment marched to Fayetteville, and after a halt of four days started for Falmouth - encamping for one night on the same ground at Brooks' Station, where it had bivouacked just six months previous, on its way to Fredericksburg. From Brooks' Station, the regi- ment was sent to Acquia Creek for gnard duty, and later on to the vicinity of Fredericksburg. On the afternoon of the 12th of De- cember, the brigade crossed the Rappahannock, three miles below Fredericksburg. On the 13th, it joined its division and marched to the attack. Being exposed to a heavy artillery fire during the entire day the Seventy-sixth suffered a loss of eleven privates killed and wounded out of one hundred and twelve who went into action at the battle of Fredericksburg. A few days after recrossing the river the regiment marched to the Potomac, where it went into quarters at Belle Plain. It was recalled on January 20, 1863, to take part in the second failure before Fredericksburg. Returning to its old
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quarters, it remained in permanent camp until the 28th of April, when it started on the Chancellorsville campaign. At a point four miles below Fredericksburg, it assisted in laying a pontoon bridge, and crossed the river at that place. At daylight an artillery duel began and continued for some time. Early on the next morning, after advancing under a dense fog, the boys found the enemy in heavy force. Unable to advance or retreat they lay during the day, protected by slightly rising ground, until dark, when they rejoined their corps. On May 1, they recrossed the river and proceeded to United States Ford, crossed the river at daylight of May 2, arrived on the battle-field of Chancellorsville at six o'clock, and remained with the forces resisting the Rebel attacks until the retreat of the Union Army to the north bank of the Rappahannock.
After going into pleasant quarters near Falmouth, the regiment received about fifty men from the Twenty-fourth New York, and later on an additional number, of five officers and two hundred and fifty men, from the Thirtieth New York. On the 12th of June the Seventy-sixth received marching orders while on the picket line, and on the following morning it was on the road to Gettysburg. It ar- rived at Centerville on the 16th, Goose Creek on the 19th, crossed the Potomac at Edwards Ferry on the 25th, and marched to Barnes- ville, Md. It reached Jefferson on the 26th, South Mountain on the 27th, Frederick City the 28th, Emmittsburg the 29th, and on the 30th moved to a creek on the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania. On the morning of July 1, the Seventy-sixth, as the ad- vance regiment of the First Corps, resumed the mareli, and before noon saw the now historical village of Gettysburg. It met the enemy at Seminary Ridge, and after seven hours of unequal contest, the troops of the First Corps were compelled to retreat to higher ground south of the village. During a half hour in which the regiment was most actively engaged, its loss in killed and wounded numbered eighteen officers and one hundred and fifty-one men. On the eve of July 2 the brigade was sent to assist the Twelfth Corps in repulsing a charge of the enemy. On the 6th and 7th of July the Union Army was in pursuit of Lee. The Seventy-sixth made its third journey toward Virginia by way of Middletown and South Mountain and crossed the Potomac by the same ronte taken after the battle of Antietam. It reached Middleburg, Va., on the 20th, numbering eighty officers and men present for duty. On the 22d the regiment moved to White Plains ; to Warrenton on the 23d, and to Beverly Ford, August 1, where it remained on picket duty until September 16.
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On the 12th of September two hundred and fifty conscripts were assigned to the regiment, and another addition of one hundred and fifty men was made on the 21st. September 24 the regiment removed to Raccoon Ford on the Rapidan. Here another addition of one hundred men was received into the regiment. During the month following, the recruits and few remaining veterans belong- ing to the Seventy-sixth played a very busy game of "tag," stop- ing at near Culpeper, Kelley's Ford, Bristoe Station, Centerville, Haymarket, Thoroughfare Gap, back to Gainesville and Bristoe Sta- tion, where they encamped until November 5. On that day they started over another circuit, -preaching at Catlett's Station, Rappa- hannock Station, Ely's Ford and Chancellorsville. Failing to pros- elyte the Johnnies at Mine Run, they began a retreat with Meade's Army on the afternoon of December 1 by way of Germania Ford, Stevensburg and Kelley's Ford.
They remained at the latter place until the 24th of December, and then moved to Culpeper and remained until the 6th of Febru- ary. While in winter quarters the number of veteran members of the Seventy-sixth was increased by convalescents from hospitals and detached duty men to one hundred and seventy-five, of which number about one hundred re-enlisted and received their veteran furlough. During this time, also, the regiment was presented a new flag, by the ladies of Cherry Valley, to re- place the old one which had become torn and riddled by the shot and shell of eleven different battles. On the 6th of February, 1864, the regiment engaged in a skirmish with the enemy at Raccoon Ford, on the Rapidan, and returned to their winter quarters. In the reorganization of the army in March, the Seventy-sixth became part of the Second Brigade, Third Division of the Fifth Army Corps, under General Warren. On the 4th day of May, the Second Brigade broke camp and advanced toward the Wilderness by way of Germania Ford, Wilderness Tavern, and met the enemy in force near Parker's store. During this engagement three companies, B, Fand K, under Major Young, as skirmishers, were cut off, and a greater part of them captured ; the balance of the regiment was actively engaged until the third day of the battle, when with its brigade it moved to the Lacy House, and from there to Todd's Tavern, where it ar- rived on the morning of May 8, and met the enemy on the same day at Laurel Hill. Unsuccessful attacks were made on the 10th, 11th and 12th, after which the brigade removed to a new position. After the battles around Spottsylvania it followed the general flank
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movement of the army, by way of Balls Church, Jericho Bridge, Quarle's Mills, Mongoluck, Hanover Town and near Totopotomoy creek, where it formed in line of battle on the plantation once owned by Patrick Henry, and holding the ground against the enemy until the forenoon of May 31, when it was relieved by the brigade of General Bartlett. On the 6th of June it arrived at Cold Harbor, on the 7th at near Sumner's Bridge, on the Chickahominy, on the 13th at Long Bridge and Wilcox Landing, on the James river ; crossing the James three miles below Windmill Point, it con- tinned the march toward Petersburg and assaulted the enemy's works on the afternoon of the 18th ; after the repulse, defenses were thrown up and the troops were allowed to rest until the 18th of August, when the regiment moved to the " Yellow House" on the Weldon railroad, when it engaged the enemy for three days; on the 27th of October the regiment moved toward Hatcher's Run, and encamped in pleasant quarters; on December 7th the Third Brigade, with two companies of the Seventy-sixth, moved out on what is known as the "Hicksford Raid;" December 18 the Seventy- sixth New York comprised two commissioned officers and one hnn- dred and eighty-four non-commissioned officers and privates, and was consolidated with the One Hundred and Forty-seventh New York, by order of the Secretary of War, December 31, 1864, the order reaching the regiment in January of 1865. The last report of the Seventy-sixth New York was made on the 15th day of January, 1865, and here we leave the chronicler, while the remaining men of a gallant and expended regiment continue on their way, under a new title, to be "in at the death " of the Confederacy. Prominent engagements of the Seventy-sixth New York : Gainesville, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Get- tysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Laurel Hill, Weldon railroad. Fox's Losses gives its total enrollment as one thousand four hundred and ninety-one; died in Rebel prisons, fifty-one.
COMPANY F.
Charles Valoise.
Summit - Mechanic ; single ; age 30 ; enlisted at Norwich, Jan- uary 23, 1862; did full service until taken prisoner on the skirmish line during the four days' battle of the Wilderness, May 8, 1864, when he, with several members of his regiment, were taken to An- dersonville ; he remained at that prison three or four months and
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was then taken to Florence, S. C .; he contracted scurvy and gangrene at Andersonville and was treated for the same at the prison hospital at Florence ; he remained at the last prison until December 7, 1864, when he was taken to Charleston, to Baltimore, to Annapolis, to Germantown; rejoined his regiment on the day Lee surrendered ; discharged July 3, 1865 ; Summit, N. Y. ; mechanic ; single.
COMPANY H.
Abram B. Utman.
Carlisle - Farmer; single; age 20; enlisted October 18, 1861; joined his regiment at Cherry Valley, and followed it to Albany and Riker's Island, where he did brilliant service digging clams ; served with his regiment at Washington ; at Fort Massachusetts he contrac- ted typhoid pneumonia and was sent to Columbia College Hospital ; rejoined his regiment in April, 1862 ; suffered a relapse of fever, caused by over-exertion in artillery drill, and was sent to Eekington Hospital, May 22, and discharged from there, June 28, 1862, for disability ; Carlisle, N. Y .; farmer; married. Children, Walter, Florence, Henry, Nina.
William H. Brown, Sergeant.
Carlisle - Farmer ; single ; age 26 ; enlisted October 18, 1861; re-enlisted at expiration of term ; was wounded in the leg at Gettys- burg ; the history of his regiment says : " A faithful soldier ;" Carlisle, N. Y. ; farmer ; married. Children, Charles, Lydia, Clara.
John Rorick.
Sharon - Farmer ; single ; age 18 ; enlisted October 18, 1861 ; served continuously until July 2, 1863, when he received a gunshot wound in right thigh ; treated at Bedloe's Island and David's Island and then sent to Camp Convalescent near Washington, and from that place to Chester Hospital, Pa., and discharged for "expiration of term ;" Cobleskill, N. Y., laborer ; married. Son, William T.
John Dorson.
Fulton -- Seaman ; age 35 ; enlisted October 21, 1861; died in hospital from wounds received at battle of Gettysburg .-- M. R.
John Mills.
Middleburg -- Single ; age 32; enlisted December 10, 1861; discharged at Harrisburg, November 29, 1862, for disability .-- M. R. Franklinton, N. Y.
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Alex Van Valkenburg.
Fulton - Farmer ; married ; age 26; enlisted September 21, 1861 ; re-enlisted ; discharged August, 1865 .-- M. R. M.
J. Cady Stanton.
Middleburg - Citizen ; single ; age 31 ; enlisted October 15, 1861; wounded by shell at Gainesville, May 28, 1862, necessitating ampu- tation of both legs ; " he survived the operation but a short time."
Charles H. Billings.
Age 20; enlisted October 18, 1861 ; discharged at the end of term, October 22, 1864 .-- M. R. M.
COMPANY I.
Peter S. Clark, Captain.
Schoharie -- Teacher ; single ; age 18; enlisted as second sergeant, October 16, 1861 ; promoted to first sergeant, May 17, 1862, and to second lieutenant, July 11, 1862 ; discharged as captain, November 9, 1863, by Special Orders No. 497, for disability from wounds; did full duty from enlistment until the battle of Gettysburg, when he was wounded by gunshot in left foot, July 1, 1863; fell into the hands of the enemy, remaining a prisoner until July 4; Philadelphia, Pa. ; manufacturer ; married. Children, Mary, Claud, Charles, Timothy.
John W. Coons, Lieutenant.
Middleburg - Farmer ; single ; age 27; enlisted October 1, 1861 ; contracted mumps at Meridan Hill, Va. ; typhoid fever at Culpeper on Pope's retreat ; wounded at Gettysburg by gunshot through left shoulder; promoted to second lieutenant, December 31, 1863, and assigned to Company G ; wounded by gunshot through left thigh at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864 ; discharged by surgeon's certificate of disability, August 15, 1864 ; Quaker Spa, Saratoga county, N. Y. ; minister ; married.
William J. Liddle, Sergeant.
Middleburg - Married ; age 30 ; enlisted as third sergeant, Octo- ber 1, 1861 ; appointed brigade commissary sergeant, June 1, 1862 ; killed near Petersburg, Va., June 24, 1864, leaving widow and children, William J., Joanna E.
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